Carmen in Paris

SAS-Space now holds a collection of reviews from the opening nights of Bizet's Carmen at the Paris Opéra Comique, part of the Francophone Music Criticism project, hosted by the Institute of Musical Research.

The collection is based on Lesley Wright's’s Georges Bizet, 'Carmen' - dossier de presse parisienne (1875), 'Critiques de l’Opéra français du XIXe siècle’ 13 (Weinsberg: Lucie Galland, 2001). It was prepared by Isabella Yeager (Smith College) under the direction of Mark Everist (University of Southampton) and was supported by a SAS Dean's Development Fund award. The directors of the network are grateful to Lesley Wright and Karl Leich-Galland for agreement to reproduce parts of this publication.

Reflecting on digital projects at SAS

SAS-Space hosts a growing collection of materials reflecting on digital projects around the School. They touch on issues such as peer review for digital resources, collaborative editing, sustainability, impact and the experience of creating online resources. See them all here

New legal scholarship from Amicus Curiae

Several items from the summer 2010 issue of Amicus Curiae, the journal of Institute of Advanced Legal Studies / Society for Advanced Legal Studies, are now live. They cover topics as diverse as war crimes trials, insurance law and the place of religious 'irrationality' in relation to the law. View the whole collection here.

The music criticism of Joseph d'Ortigue

Editions of a further 100 articles have been added to this collection, bringing the total to over 300 (around half the intended number). Joseph d'Ortigue was one of the most prolific and wide-ranging music critics in Paris during the mid-nineteenth century. He had strong views on opera, was closely involved in debates about Catholic church music, and had a keen interest in the music of the past. All these concerns come through in the latest batch of files, written for a weekly music periodical, Le ménestrel [The Minstrel] run by the Paris publishing house Heugel. View the collection in SAS-Space.

The London Stock Exchange: an oral history

New on SAS-Space is a growing collection of transcripts and recordings of interviews with stock jobbers from the Stock Exchange. The interviews were produced as part of an oral history project at the Centre for Metropolitan History (Institute of Historical Research.) See them all at the collection homepage.

New MA dissertations

This time of year traditionally sees the deposit of the best of the MA dissertations submitted in the 2009-10 session. Recent new deposits include dissertations on food and cultural memory from the IGRS, and on the history of London from the IHR.

New work on European literature

New items from fellows of the IGRS include a paper on the Austrian writer Cornelius von Ayrenhoff, and papers by Aino Rinhaug on various aspects of Portuguese literature.